Review: Skinfood Rice White Mochi Stick Foundation

June 24, 2009

Skinfood is a very cute Korean brand with tons and tons of skincare and make up products (plenty have been reviewed on this blog) and I decided to try out one of their base products.

Buying base items online is always somewhat problematic – there’s guarantee it will match but I ordered shade no.2 anyway from eBay. (Korean make up I find, is a little on the light side whereas I am a medium NC35 tone.)

The thing is, I am a sucker for convenience. Anything that can be shrunk and carried around in a handbag is good for me.

The foundation is like those lipsticks you get with a moisturizing core. Obviously one has to consider that the centre is going to lighten the foundation even further:

Shade 02 (there were only 2 shades from what I remember) was actually quite dark. A tad tad light for my skin but nothing devastating. It is yellow based. This foundation is pretty creamy to begin with, and when used, it applies easily but there is a problem when it gets blended in – its cakey.

It got cakey after just a few moments of application and it stayed cakey all day. I presumed with the core it would be quite a nice moisturizing foundation but alas no – it just stuck to my dry bits.

Swatch:

Shade was fine, coverage was fine but the texture was just off. I didn’t see any benefit from the special ‘core’ so to speak.